Hapara

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Instead of asking learners to read a math or social studies chapter, you can bring the subject to life with a digital textbook. With digital textbooks, students learn how to use technology responsibly and pull information from a variety of digital sources. You can save money to use in other high-need learning areas.

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OER Hapara Chromebook Tablets 130

Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

We at Designers for Learning responded to this call by inviting instructional designers, developers, and adult educators to join a crowdsourcing effort to develop free open educational resources (OER) for adults with low math and literacy skills. Department of Education that establish learning achievement goals for math and literacy.

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Resources MOOC How To OER 210

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

What Rasmussen didn’t have at the beginning of her political career, however, was much knowledge about how to turn her ideas into effective policies. “I I remember when I was elected to be a state senator, I bet I spent the first year figuring out the processes and the nuances of how decisions really get made,” she says.

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Policies Study Handbook Advocacy 150

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. para, where he explains how PBL and OER go hand-in-hand. . What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? These issues have brought OER back to the forefront of educational needs. .

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OER Resources Common Core Digital Badges 95

Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

When you teach digital citizenship, you teach learners how to use the internet responsibly. Digital commerce : Teaching learners how to safely make purchases online and discover careers that they can pursue in e-commerce. Digital literacy : Teaching learners how to evaluate online sources and give proper credit to sources.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Elementary OER 274

Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 12, 2022

For example, they might encourage them to abandon less effective study techniques like highlighting and rereading, and help them adopt more effective study techniques like spaced retrieval practice. Another example is actively monitoring student learning and proactively reaching out to students who are struggling.

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Learning OER Exercises Student Engagement 146

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

People deserve to choose when, where and how to study.” eTextbooks, multimedia learning objects, OER, all class materials, organic (social) class communications, discussion, collaborative learning assignments—everything must be mobile-perfect.” People deserve to choose when, where and how to study.

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How To Mobility Course OER 106

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

His work has shown him that “it will definitely be a more sustainable initiative if it is collaborative—-whether it's OER, open access journals, etc.if OERs are often undervalued compared to their paid counterparts, posited Blake Gore of Vanderbilt University and Tanya Spilovy thinks librarians can help.

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Libraries Digital Learning OER Learning 129

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Using OER is hard. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER. BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. Finding good lessons, videos, articles and activities is hard. Elfrieda “Freddy” H.

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OER Common Core Video Assessment 102

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. To me, using OER felt like a no-brainer. Many working in open education praised me for being so involved in the movement as an educator dealing with OER on the ground.

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OER Education Policies Survey 83

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 17, 2017

Both of these products wrap significant additional functionality around OER. It wraps pre-assessments, in situ formative assessments, and summative assessments around OER. Like Waymaker, OHM wraps these and other features around OER. No one is ever denied access to the OER in Lumen courses for any reason.

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OER LMS Assessment Course 61

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

BBookX uses artificial intelligence to create OER texts for professors to use in their courses instead of traditional textbooks. Sparrow thinks a tool like BBookX can be used for personalized learning in the classroom as well—so that perhaps students can craft what their own study materials look like.

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Robotics OER Industry Education 116

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Slow Growth Amazon would not answer questions about how fast the service is growing. When EdSurge checked the collection in July, the site listed about 3,600 materials for Social Studies, and now shows about the same. It’s something that teachers feel very comfortable with because most people know how to use Amazon,” she says. “We

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OER Education Company System 102

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

Figure out how to boil down a big subject into scaffolded, age-appropriate and differentiated chunks. If you had that firsthand experience of this enormously daunting task, I’m convinced your perspective on how to “disrupt” education would change profoundly. I wish you had to plan a lesson and teach a class. At least once.

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EdTech OER Industry Study 90

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems.

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OER Social Media Libraries eBook 46

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I’ve studied all the survey responses now, and it is becoming clear that the conversations will be ongoing. Bring back the conference track on Accessibility and OER. Have more concrete sessions on how to find OER and how to put together a course using OER.

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Survey Conference OER Data 60

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

We have a similar problem in the open educational resources (OER) space. Many people are in the habit of referring to OER as a commons. OER are not like the shared resources at the center of traditional commons. People (like Elinor Ostrom ) know how to win this game. However, OER are not CPRs. We could go on.

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OER Resources Groups Accessibility 101

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The Global Medieval Sourcebook at Stanford University is bringing an expansive, OER mentality to the medieval canon, making reliable texts available for classroom use. Kirschenbaum , a professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park and director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies program there.

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Libraries OER Case Study Robotics 115

Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. Observe how your students interact with technology and make sure they know how to properly use their devices.

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Technology Classroom BYOD OER 120

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Learn more about gaming while at ISTE—and beyond: Book a meeting at ISTE 2018 to learn about Classcraft’s Engagement Management System for schools and districts, and the Quests Marketplace featuring partners like Google Education, Discovery Educator Network, Newsela, LRNG, Breakout EDU and OER Commons. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970.

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Video Learning OER Gamification 113

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 23, 2020

I wanted to include a reading summarizing my current thinking on ‘evaluating the impact of OER’ in the course, so I’m letting some thoughts spill out below. In the past I’ve written frequently about how we evaluate the impact of OER use. and more OER impact research should follow that lead. versus 2.6).

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OER Education Course Learning Analytics 174

Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Districts having success in this area have comprehensive refresh plans, work with high quality partners, build relationships with local businesses, work diligently to receive grants, and leverage a variety of open educational resources (OERs). Commit to Student Privacy and Clearly Articulate Policies to Stakeholders.

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EdTech Future Ready Social Media Broadband 189

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 26, 2017

From giving kids problems with the right level of difficulty to solving problems with students, learn how to take any math student to the next level. You’ll also learn about the open source resource, Expii invented by Po-Shen Loh and how you can use it. Thank you, Staples for sponsoring this episode. What makes Expii unique?

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Classroom OER Software System 227

Connecting 2 the World

JULY 27, 2022

Sessions in Creating an Accessible Syllabus, Global OER, Entangled Pedagogy and Liberating Structures may at first seem totally different. For both students and faculty, many people needed to find videos that would explain how to use the technology. But my mind is always trying to find links and common threads.

Learning 40

Learning OER Course Outcomes 40

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 13, 2019

Leonhardt calls these “lecture texts” and further describes them as “an inexpensive copy of the text under study, mass-produced, as it were, with the ‘blanks’ to be filled in” (p. When feedback comes too long after you practice, it’s difficult to understand how to apply it to your current practice. . With the blanks to be filled in?”

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OER System Exercises Course 99

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

West Virginia PBL Project Data Base – This is a wonderful site where teachers can search through the subjects of reading, language arts, math, science, social studies, dance, visual arts, theater, and music. PBL Social Studies Project Ideas by grade level. Look at the database found on the right-hand side of the page.

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Resources OER Learning STEM 105

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

The program gives students the ability to study anatomy and physiology by looking inside the human body. To add to the richness of the experience, BioDigital Human allows students to virtually conduct dissections and use the information to study and explore. Text, Pictures, Videos, links to more resources.

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Chromebook Google Edmodo Study 100

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

For “Mid-Term Trends: (three to five years)” the report found “Proliferation of Open Educational Resources” and “The Rise of New Forms of Interdisciplinary Studies.” ” OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). We can solve these.

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Report Trends Robotics OER 46

Hapara

MARCH 17, 2022

Mr. Stone locates openly licensed content found on OER Commons and uploads it within the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack. She is working on a Project-Based Learning assignment called Slow The Spread, where her class is studying how to design healthier learning environments. Accessing digital learning resources . At 11:00 a.m.,

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OER Chromebook Hapara Accessibility 235

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It will also introduce Open Educational Resources (OER) and teach you how to find and adapt free, useful resources for your classes. The course material is learnt around practical case studies faced by teachers when using copyright material in their day-to-day teaching and educational instruction. Copyright 4 Educators (US).

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Course OER Case Study Education 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study. TESS101x: Enhancing Teacher Education Through OER. Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs. Learn How to Play Chess. Get Organized: How to be a Together Teacher. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning.

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

For “Mid-Term Trends: (three to five years)” the report found “Proliferation of Open Educational Resources” and “The Rise of New Forms of Interdisciplinary Studies.” ” OER is definitely rising, and this timeline might actually be precise (cf my post from yesterday ). We can solve these.

Report 40

Report Trends Robotics OER 40

Fractus Learning

MAY 24, 2016

To do this, Lilly turned to the CK-12 Foundation to help develop a suite of Open Educational Resources (OER) that would help them meet the school’s budgetary and educational needs. Rather than taking the traditional approach and breaking mathematics into separate units of study (i.e. algebra, geometry, trigonometry, etc.),

Digital Learning 40

Digital Learning OER Laptops Learning 40

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

Required reading: Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you’ve failed via Troy Hunt.). As a professor who studies technology integration in K-12 schools, I can say the answer is yes, but there are some critical caveats." Tagged on: August 18, 2017 Is classroom technology good for learning or wasting time?

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EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

In a panel discussion moderated by Mark Phillips (CEO at HireEducation), Graham Forman (Founder of Ednovate) and Mandela Schumacher-Hodge (Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital) will talk about the challenges of obtaining funding, and how to overcome those obstacles to get your business started. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 11:00 a.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Study must focus on these along with deeper learning and 21st century skill acquisition. Through these processes students will become aware of “how to learn” and will discover and practice the flow, cycle, and iterations that are the essence of learning. OER Commons – A great place for open and free content aligned to the standards.

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Assessment Conference Learning E-rate 99

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

study, Going Digital , on faculty attitudes towards digital materials. Community colleges are much more interested in OER than other sectors. The question Casey asks is, how to get more value out of the LMS? How to grow its functionality? How to avoid suffering from “semantic remorse”?

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40